Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia population, 2020 to 2024

Philadelphia lost 26,872 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +10,567. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 126th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Philadelphia is 188.2 times that size.

Philadelphia covers 134.32 square miles of land and 8.10 of water, for 11,718 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Philadelphia is denser than the typical town.

What county Philadelphia is in

All of Philadelphia's residents live in Philadelphia County, which had 1,573,916 residents in 2024. Philadelphia holds 100.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Philadelphia

49 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Philadelphia by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 19102, 19103, 19104, 19106, 19107, 19108, 19109, 19111, 19112, 19114, 19115, 19116, 19118, 19119, 19120, 19121, 19122, 19123, 19124, 19125, 19126, 19127, 19128, 19129, 19130, 19131, 19132, 19133, 19134, 19135, 19136, 19137, 19138, 19139, 19140, 19141, 19142, 19143, 19144, 19145, 19146, 19147, 19148, 19149, 19150, 19151, 19152, 19153, 19154. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Philadelphia is

The Census internal point of Philadelphia is at 40.009400, -75.133300. Harrisburg, the capital, is 94.1 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New York, NY (8,478,072 people), 77.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 44.2 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 31 m (102 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Philadelphia

At 40.01° N, Philadelphia gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Philadelphia daylight page.

Places near Philadelphia

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Rockledge, 5.5 miles away, with 2,641 people.